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Hunter Valley · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1871

4 stories in Hunter Valley's papers

The Ball

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 20 April 1871 · page 4

The platform of the goods shed had been planed down a little to serve as a dancing floor, and was ornamented with festoons of leaves, branches of trees, and flags, and looked very…

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Shocking Scene in a Theatre

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 27 June 1871 · page 3

The Diritto of Floreuce gives an account of a shocking accident which took place the other night at the Prince Humbert Theatre in that city A ballet pantomine was being performed,…

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English Extracts. the Peel Pictures

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 29 August 1871 · page 3

The room in the National Gallery which contains the pictures purchased from Sir Robert Peel is now open to the public. It is that which leads immediately into the large room at the…

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Destruction by Fire of the Haymarket Theatre, Melbourne

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 28 September 1871 · page 2

The Melbourne Argus, of Saturday last, contains full particulars of this calamity, from which we condense the following particulars:— The Haymarket Theatre, in Bourke-street,has been…

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